Do Trustees and Administrators Matter? Diversifying the Faculty Across Gender Lines

Ronald G. Ehrenberg, George H. Jakubson, Mirinda L. Martin, Joyce B. Main, Thomas Eisenberg

NBER Working Paper No. 15606
Issued in December 2009

---- Acknowledgements -----

We are grateful to Dr. Merrill P. Schwartz, Director of Research for the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) for aiding us to collect the information on the gender composition of boards of trustees that we use in the paper and to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their financial support of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. However, the views expressed here are solely our own and not necessarily those of the acknowledged institutions nor of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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